Open AccessMusings on thermostats
Author(s) -
Denis J. Evans,
Debra J. Searles,
Stephen R. Williams
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the journal of chemical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.071
H-Index - 357
eISSN - 1089-7690
pISSN - 0021-9606
DOI - 10.1063/1.3486092
Subject(s) - thermostat , relaxation (psychology) , thermodynamics , mathematics , mathematical economics , computer science , physics , psychology , social psychology
In 2005, Bright et al. gave numerical evidence that among the family of time reversible deterministic thermostats known as mu-thermostats, the conventional mu =1 thermostat proposed by Hoover and Evans is the only thermostat that is capable of generating an equilibrium state. Using the recently discovered relaxation theorem, we give a mathematical proof that this is true.No Full Tex
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